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WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Thursday, February 8—9 o’clock A. M. 
The board met pursuant to adjournment. 
The president, on taking the chair, called attention to the 
great importance of the duties next in order—the selection of 
officers and judges for the fair—and urged that all members 
apply themselves to the work closely, since it was the desire of 
some that there should be a final adjournment of the board in 
timci to allow of their leaving for home by the noon train. 
A motion was made and carried to proceed first to the ap¬ 
pointment of general officers and superintendents. 
The secretary and treasurer were held to be controllers of the 
■office of entry and of the ticket office, respectively, ex officio. 
Mr. Hoyt nominated vice-president Wm. R Taylor, who 
had so long and so efficiently served the society in that im¬ 
portant position, as chief marshal, with authority to choose 
his own assistants; which nomination was seconded, and unan¬ 
imously carried. 
Mr. Taylor thanked the gentlemen who had kindly favored 
him for that position, and the board for endorsing their recom¬ 
mendation, but asked to be excused on the ground that the 
duties were exceedingly laborious, and, if discharged, as he 
would wish to discharge them, self sacrificing to a degree not 
easily understood by those upon whom they had never been 
devolved. He would very much prefer that some other per¬ 
son should be chosen in his stead. 
The board refused to excuse him, however, and he at length 
consented to serve. 
Other nominations were made in succession for the several 
posit’ons to be filled and the list was finally completed as fol¬ 
lows : 
Marshal —Wm. R. Taylor, vice-president. 
Superintendent of Gates —N. D. Fratt, member of the board. 
Superintendent of Horse Department —N. S. Greene, member of the board. 
Superintendent of Cattle Department —C. H. Williams, vice-president. 
Superintendent of Sheep Department —Eli Stilson, vice-president. 
Superintendent of Swine and Poultry Department— J. H. Warren, mem¬ 
ber of the board. 
Superintendent of Agricultural Department —W. W. Field, member of the 
board. 
